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Allard 'Gets Real' With IGN
schnikies79 writes "In an interview with IGN, Microsoft's Corporate Vice President Chief Architect J. Allard said he wants to work with competitors on the XBox 360. From the interview: 'I'm pro consumer on this one to the end,' says Allard. 'Anybody in my company who thought this was a bad idea to plug in Sony or Apple devices into this thing, I ended that conversation pretty quickly. This is the right thing to do for consumers. Once they invest $500 in their digital media library, you can't ask them to go buy a 360 music player and a 360 digital camera, and a 360...NO! They got their stuff. They're going to want to plug it in. We're going to be open here, guys. And if anything, I wish we could be more cooperative with the other companies that are doing those things. And if Sony or Apple were to call me up and say, "Hey, we want to some special things with the 360," I'm on it. I think it would not be in anybody's interest to say, we're not going to work with 360. It's good for them, it's good for us, and it's good for consumers.'"
This is the right thing to do for consumers.
I wonder who leaves Microsoft shareholder gatherings covered in rotten tomatoes!
Do you like German cars?
I hope for the sake of the consumers, that he get's his way.
You are being MICROattacked, from various angles, in a SOFT manner.
I bet it'll turn out to be satire in the end.
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*kicks consumer in the nuts*
"Hey buddy, I'm not kicking you in the nuts!"
*kicks consumer in the nuts*
Like I said, we geeks at Slashdot have been fighting Microsoft's desire to dominate the industry with monopolistic tendencies for the past 2-3 decades.
How many of us have coded Open Source applications that try to read in Microsoft files. It's not easy. Look at how long it took us to get OpenOffice.org able to read and write back *.doc files decently.
As if you need another example, look at XML. Microsoft wants their own XML. Get real.
They'd own all of us if they could. Their goal is to show profit and that's it, they don't give 2 sh*ts about you my friend. They want to get you into their products and make you buy more and more from them.
The XBOX 360 better let me use a standard Firewire/USB to browse files I have on other devices. Just what do you expect from a $500 piece of plastic and $70 game system?
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I say someone from Sun should call him up trying to get a 360 OpenDocument viewer going.
They're going to want to plug it in. [...] And if Sony or Apple were to call me up and say, "Hey, we want to some special things with the 360,"
and I'm sure they are going to tell them where they can plug it in.
Did... did we just enter Bizarro World? I'm confused... Does Bizarro Microsoft give its programs out for free and have everyone drooling over them while trying to fight the evil Bizarro Linux empire from patenting air?
Should I be expecting a hot super model to show up naked at my door step?
Hell, in Bizarro World, why not!
How exactly do the 360 and PSP compete? I mean...do you want to lug your 360 and an LCD + Speakers around with you to listen to music???
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In one fell swoop they've put reverse engineers out of action. Now if you want to make an Apple or Sony device interoperate with an X-Box 360 you won't have to hack your device or install a mod-chip. How selfish! They put a whole industry out of business. How typical of Microsoft to shaft people this way.
Ballmer might have some rotten tomatoes for this guy...!
I think you misspelled "high-velocity chairs".
When you look at the state of the world, how can you not become a radical, liberal anarchist?